Large-scale change triggers chemical reactions in the brain that we can't control, but the story we tell about it determines whether we respond with fear or flexibility. Your narrative around change shapes everything.
And then the other thing I want to explore is the fact that change creates chemical reactions in our brains. Massive change happens, and at the moment— and I'm not going to insult your intelligence by listing all of the things that are happening— but we have these PESTLE drivers of change: politics, economics, social, technology, legislation, environment. These huge changes that happen, and at the moment, at this point in time, there are so many of those changes happening in so many different places and parts of the world. And because of social media, we're exposed to a lot more now than we have been before. There's also way more people on the planet than there were before, so there's more change happening. When that happens, it causes reactions in our brains. How much exposure we have to good news or bad news, how much of the bad news in the world we pay attention to that could cause us distress. In our brains, all those chemical reactions that happen, the brain can't quite tell whether this is scary and threatening or exciting. And we can tell the story to our brains that changes that. And that story is really important. How we frame the change that is happening around us, or the change that we're responsible for, or the change we need to respond to, How we tell ourselves that story and how we tell other people determines how we're going to react. Are we trying to react in fear and protect ourselves? Are we trying to future-proof ourselves so that nothing can hurt us? Or are we more open to these changes so we're trying to be flexible and responsive? We become future-fit.
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